Utrecht Terwijde is a railway station on the

Utrecht–Rotterdam railway The Utrecht–Rotterdam railway is a heavily used railway in the Netherlands, running from Utrecht to Rotterdam, passing through Woerden and Gouda. The line was opened between 1855 and 1858. The western terminus was originally the Rotterdam M ...

. It is located between

Vleuten Vleuten is a former village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Today, it is a neighbourhood of the city of Utrecht, and lies about 6 km west from the city centre. Vleuten has a railway station on the line between Utrecht and Woerden Woerde ...

and Utrecht Leidsche Rijn stations. The Terwijde neighbourhood is part of the

Leidsche Rijn Leidsche Rijn (, Utrecht dialect: ) is a neighbourhood in the west of Utrecht in the central Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = ...

area under construction, west of

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

. Because of the large number of

Commuters Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community. By extension, it can sometimes be any regu ...

in this area, a temporary railway station was built in 2003. And in 2005 construction started next to this station for the actual station, which opened on 5 November 2007. Utrecht Terwijde railway station is part of a large project of expanding the two track line to four tracks on this stretch of the railway, which was completed in 2011.

Train services

The following services call at Utrecht Terwijde: *2x per hour local service (''sprinter'') The Hague - Gouda - Utrecht *2x per hour local service (''sprinter'') Woerden - Utrecht

Bus services

* 4 (''Zuilen - Centraal Station - Leidsche Rijn - Utrecht Terwijde'')

References

NS websiteU OV websiteDutch public transport planner
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